No operating system installed or corrupted partition

I have a MacBook Pro and wanted to setup Boot Camp 2.0 so that I could run windows in order to install programs neccessary to manage my Blackberry.
I partitioned the XP as 10Gb and formatted FAT 32. The XP Home CD I used was one originally for my Gateway laptop. Had to back up everything on an external HD and install Mac OS x 10.5.1 (erase and install) since files could not be moved if I had all my info on the computer. Everything went well off the clean install until I had to install boot camp drivers for windows. I could not install updated features because it was SP1.
So I found another Gateway XP Home CD this time it was SP2 (used for my mom's desktop). First, deleted the windows partition by using boot camp assistant. And tried the process over again, this time with the SP2 cd. Partition kept the same at 10Gb, but upon restarting the screen went black and said "No operating system installed or partition corrupted, press 'R' to perform system recovery". Tried 'R' but nothing happened, seemed frozen. The SP1 cd is able to get some response upon a restart, but that is not the cd I want the computer to read and set up again. Sorry for the drawn out explanation, but I don't know where to go from here...

Sweet! I appreciate your help. Boot camp confuses me because I always had the thought that if you already had a win xp cd then you could just boot that up on your mac computer. Did not realize that if it is registered or tied to another computer that that would limit it, and force you to buy a whole new Win operating system.
I am just worried now that my partition/disk is messed up now after all those clean installs and unsuccessful boot camp installs and removals. I went into Disk Utility and ran a "repair disk" on my Mac HD. It came back with 9 warnings regarding SUID files that have either been modified or simply cannot be repaired. Will yet another "erase and install" from the Mac OS X Leopard cd fix all these or no? Is that the best way to go about a fix? Just want to make sure I have done no permanent damage so I can restore all my data off my external HD and possibly try boot camp againt, correctly, in the future.

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